I am like seasonal coder, I was never regular and because of it I forget most of the stuff. it feels guilty to me if I don't code. I like building products which is useful to everyday life. its interesting, I agree, but I am not giving enough efforts, at the end of the day, I don't find any improvement in myself. that frustrates me.
need some help friends. seems like I am messed up.
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At its essence most of what we do is just manipulating raw text. Once you get over the hump of syntax and a few basic patterns there is something addicting about creating things out of plain text that gui's cannot. Small programs can be connected together in fascinating ways to do things that could not be feasible without additional work for each iteration.
What I used to do in my past job was essentially going though dozens of homegrown websites and tools, merging data into excel, and creating presentations. It works great for one offs, but it doesn't scale the same way. I cannot do spend 4 hours to create a separate output for 10K products, or keep them up to date. With a bit of code I can create the first report in a similar timeframe, update in seconds rather than hours and scale to 1000's of products rather than a handful.
Excel runs the world, but it still does not integrate well into and out to other services well enough.
Find a project that you care about and solve it, learning for loops, search, sort just for the fun of it is not that interesting.
You don't have to love coding to have a successful career. You can do it because it gives you a lifestyle you want, and that can be enough.
I almost quit my CS program in school. Not because I hated coding, but I liked other things a lot more.
Eventually, I was talked out of it and the conclusion I came to is that coding, software, and the job it has doesn't define me. Its some small part, but that's it. With that I was able to think about what I really do want. Turns out that having a paying software job isn't the worst way to go, and I was able to figure out how to use a career in software to find more fulfillment everywhere.
Could be that, you need to do something RELATED to coding.
Aside. Look at yourself in the mirror. Say clearly "I hate myself". Acknowledging feelings is very important. Thereafter you will grow, and move on.